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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"public reason"”.
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"Reiding Rawls": A critical assessment of Thomas Reid's Common Sense Philosophy as a response to John Rawls's doctrine of public reason
… dissertation examines John Rawls’s doctrine of public reason in light of Thomas Reid’s Common Sense philosophy. Chapter 1 introduces the topics of public reason and common sense in order to suggest that Thomas Reid’s philosophy can provide a beneficial contribution to public policy debates. …
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Basic rights and disagreement: is persistent disagreement about basic rights a reason to specify rights by democratic procedures?
Reasonable disagreement about rights is commonly thought to challenge the legitimacy of political liberalism and judicial review. If citizens persistently and reasonably disagree about basic rights, how can any state adopt laws that all citizens can reasonably accept? Why can a handful of judges …
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Rhetoric, reason, and the problem of rule : Aristotle and J.S. Mill on speech and politics.
This dissertation examines the relation between reason, public speech, and rule in the thought of J.S. Mill and Aristotle. It argues that both Mill and Aristotle present alternatives to typical liberal theories of speech that distinguish private "moral" languages from non-moral public discourse …
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Peircean Epistemic Democracy: Truth, Pluralism, and Religion
… justification to address the challenge of reasonable pluralism. Whereas public reason approaches to democratic justification require citizens privatize their worldviews, an epistemic approach to democracy allows citizens the freedom to express their personal reasons while harnessing the …
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John Rawls and the Supreme Court : a study in continuity and change.
… by his calling the Court the exemplar of public reason; it is to take the institutional lead in re-founding the U.S. Constitution upon an overlapping consensus on issues of public morality based upon a liberal theory of justice. Democratic theorists have argued that Rawls's version of …
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THE RULES OF THE GAME OF DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC DISCOURSE
… phenomena that characterize contemporary public discourse, such as the spreading of hate and toxic speech, fake news, disinformation, conspiracy theories, etc., this dissertation addresses the following research question: how should ordinary citizens publicly discuss in order to ensure …
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Guidelines for a Pluralist Society: Could Rawls Help with Struggles Over Identity
… I will examine Rawls’ distinction between public political culture and the background culture in terms of the idea of public reason in response to Seyla Benhabib’s criticism that the distinction fails to elucidate guidelines in the face of many modern gender and familial issues. In Part …
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Guidelines for a Pluralist Society: Could Rawls Help with Struggles Over Identity
… I will examine Rawls’ distinction between public political culture and the background culture in terms of the idea of public reason in response to Seyla Benhabib’s criticism that the distinction fails to elucidate guidelines in the face of many modern gender and familial issues. In Part …
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Allocating healthcare resources on the basis of personal responsibility for ill-health: what role (if any) should public opinion play? A socio-ethical analysis
… of the views, values and preferences of the public to the ongoing discussions. The ethical justification for seeking public participation in this type of debate is explored. Within this thesis, a range of issues are critically evaluated, including healthcare distribution via the 'QALY' …
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Competing schemas within the American liberal democracy : an interdisciplinary analysis of differing perceptions of church and state.
… debate over which sources should be accepted to publically justify laws touching on education and morality. Many believe that religious beliefs are outside of public reason, and they are, thus, inadequate to justify the formation of coercive laws. The reason for this is that many people perceive …
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Religion and the public sphere: the spatial theory of Michel de Certeau and religious space
The public and academic debate of the relationship of religion and secularity is ongoing. Religion continues as a matter of increasing interest as public expressions of religion challenge perceived social norms that are often expressed using dichotomies of private and public, reason and belief, …
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Economic activity or public order limitations: the interplay of the regulation of prostitution between national law, EU law and efforts to combat human trafficking
… an economic activity, a social harm or a public nuisance. Rawls’ public reason theory is utilised as a tool to analyse the way moral views of the general public of each jurisdiction influence the regulatory approach adopted. <br/><br/>A comparative legal examination of the jurisdictions in …